American Evangelical Politics before the Christian Right
Is American Evangelicalism a politically progressive tradition? For contemporary observers who are familiar with American Evangelicalism only in its modern, politically conservative guise, the idea that many American Evangelicals have traditionally been on the left end of the political spectrum migh...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2018, Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 367-372 |
| Review of: | Evangelicalism in America (Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, 2016) (Williams, Daniel K.)
The Evangelicals (New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017) (Williams, Daniel K.) |
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| Summary: | Is American Evangelicalism a politically progressive tradition? For contemporary observers who are familiar with American Evangelicalism only in its modern, politically conservative guise, the idea that many American Evangelicals have traditionally been on the left end of the political spectrum might come as a surprise. Yet, according to Randall Balmer's Evangelicalism in America and Frances Fitzgerald's The Evangelicals, both of which offer two-hundred-year surveys of Evangelical political activism in the United States, the Christian Right is an aberration in American Evangelicalism and not representative of the tradition's political orientation. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046917000811 |